— Khem Veasna Cambodian politician 1971
Multi-Parties political platform (25 June 2013)
„It is true that discussion is allowed within the system. But the quarrels between right and left seem to me completely futile, for in every possible way they simply lead to an enhancement of the power of the state.“
Quelle: The Ethics of Freedom (1973 - 1974), p. 397
Kontext: When we speak of dialogue with the sovereign, it seems to me that this can be definitely initiated only on the basis of the greatest possible intransigence, for power today is completely alien to any real discussion. It is true that discussion is allowed within the system. But the quarrels between right and left seem to me completely futile, for in every possible way they simply lead to an enhancement of the power of the state.
Democracy is a mere trap with the party system as it is and a bureaucracy that cannot be altered. Discussion may go on about taxes and the improvement of social services. But power is totally deaf to the individual, indifferent to the interests of freedom, and ignorant of the true concerns of the nation. Only a radical opposition, i. e., an attack on the root of the situation, can engage it in authentic dialogue.
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— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Presidency (1977–1981), Farewell Address (1981)
Kontext: Within our system of government every American has a right and duty to help shape the future course of the United States.
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society. Now as in our past, only the understanding and involvement of the people through full and open debate can help to avoid serious mistakes and assure the continued dignity and safety of the nation.
„Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.“
— Clive Staples Lewis, buch Christentum schlechthin
Book III, Chapter 8, "The Great Sin"
Mere Christianity (1952)
— A. Wayne Wymore American mathematician 1927 - 2011
A. Wayne Wymore (1972) Systems Engineering Methodology for Interdisciplinary Teams. Department of Systems Engineering, The University of Arizona; As cited in: J.C. Heckman (1973, p. 39).
— Tenzin Gyatso spiritual leader of Tibet 1935
Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with The Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism (1999) ISBN 1559391278
— Jean-Baptiste Colbert French politician 1619 - 1683
Arthur John Sargent (1899), The Economic Policy of Colbert. p. 65
— Adonis Georgiadis Greek politician 1972
As he said in the Greek parliament
Original: (el) Η διαφορά δεξιάς-αριστεράς να ξέρετε είναι αυτή: ο αριστερός ζει στον φαντασιακό κόσμο, πάντα συζητάει για το τι θα ήθελε να συμβαίνει ο δεξιός, εμείς δηλαδή, ζούμε στον πραγματικό κόσμο κοιτάμε να δούμε τι μπορεί να γίνει
Quelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZeImBRWjc
— W. Ross Ashby British psychiatrist 1903 - 1972
Quelle: An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956), Part I: Mechanism, p. 25
„Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.“
— John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914
Muir's marginal note in volume I of Prose Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson (This volume is located at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. See Albert Saijo, "Me, Muir, and Sierra Nevada", in Reinhabiting a Separate Country: A Bioregional Anthology of Northern California, edited by Peter Berg, San Francisco, California: Planet Drum Foundation, 1978, pages 52-59, at page 55, and Frederick W. Turner, Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours (1985), page 193.)
1870s
— John O. Brennan 7th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 1955
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery CIA Director John O. Brennan Response to SSCI Study on the Former Detention and Interrogation Program https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2014-speeches-testimony/remarks-as-prepared-for-delivery-cia-director-john-o-brennan-response-to-ssci-study-on-the-former-detention-and-interrogation-program.html
— Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898
Canto 1
Phantasmagoria (1869)
— Honoré de Balzac French writer 1799 - 1850
Le pouvoir est une action, et le principe électif est la discussion.Il n'y a pas de politique possible avec la discussion en permanence.
About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Introduction
— Ramakrishna Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836 - 1886
As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204
— Pierre Bourdieu French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher 1930 - 2002
Gillian Tett " Eliminate financial double-think http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/96810a0e-8d8f-11de-93df-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2TVG2oiL2" Financial Times, August 20, 2009
— Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013
The Second Carlton Lecture (26 November 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=105799
Second term as Prime Minister
— Norman Angell British politician 1872 - 1967
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
Kontext: We use power, of course, in the international fields in a way which is the exact contrary to the way in which we use it within the state. In the international field, force is the instrument of the rival litigants, each attempting to impose his judgment upon the other. Within the state, force is the instrument of the community, the law, primarily used to prevent either of the litigants imposing by force his view upon the other. The normal purpose of police — to prevent the litigant taking the law into his own hands, being his own judge — is the precise contrary of the normal purpose in the past of armies and navies, which has been to enable the litigant to be his own judge of his own rights when in conflict about them with another.
— Raymond Geuss, buch Philosophy and Real Politics
Quelle: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 28.
— Roger Penrose, buch The Emperor's New Mind
Quelle: The Emperor's New Mind (1989), Ch. 6, Quantum Magic and Quantum Mastery, p. 269.
Kontext: It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable, in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.
